Released: March 12, 2002

Songwriter: Steve Russell

Producer: Lil Steve

[Intro]
No matter what they say
I'm gonna love you anyway
Mmmm… Mmm…
Love you anyway

[Verse 1]
I've had a lot of hell tryin' to explain to my daddy
How you make me feel and why I wanna be your lady (Mmm…)
But he ain't feelin' me (No no)
He says the way you carry yourself is wack
Your hat to the back, you pants saggin'
But I tell him you just look like that
There's so many things about you he just can't see

[Chorus]
But, boy, you know what?
When I start to think about it
It's like "so what?"
Go 'head and let him trip about it
No matter how they feel or what they may say
I'm gonna love you anyway (Uh-huh)
And, boy, you know what?
When they start to flip about it
It ain't enough for me to ever be without ya
You best believe it when I tell you we straight
I'm gonna love you anyway (Love you anyway)

[Verse 2]
Even my girls say you play too many games with my feelings
But they don't understand the way we be relatin'
I can't make 'em see (Oh, no)
Even my momma say that you just a flirt
You like to twerk
They wanna try and judge ya without knowin' you first
There ain't nothin we can do about it
We might as well forget about it

[Verse 3]
Like the story of an old forbidden love (Forbidden love)
We're the only ones who understand this love
(Who understands this love)
And just like Romeo and Juliet
We will stand the test of time
Our love is blind, I wish they didn't wanna change my mind

[Chorus]
But, boy, you know what?
When I start to think about it
It's like "so what?"
Go 'head and let him trip about it
No matter how they feel or what they may say
I'm gonna love you anyway (Uh-huh)
And, boy, you know what?
When they start to flip about it
It ain't enough for me to ever be without ya
You best believe it when I tell you we straight
I'm gonna love you anyway (Love you anyway)

[Verse 4]
I know (I don't know)
I don't know how it makes you feel to know that
My folks don't want me to see you at all
It really don't make sense to me
'Cause you and me reached destiny
I hope one day, we can laugh about it
Even though they don’t even want you to call
I guess it's just you and me
'Cause they gone be how they gone be, yeah

[Chorus]
But, boy, you know what?
When I start to think about it
It's like "so what?"
Go 'head and let him trip about it
No matter how they feel or what they may say
I'm gonna love you anyway (Uh-huh)
And, boy, you know what?
When they start to flip about it
It ain't enough for me to ever be without ya
You best believe it when I tell you we straight
I'm gonna love you anyway (Love you anyway)

[Bridge]
Yeah, yeah, ohh
Love you anyway
I'm gonna love you (Love you anyway)
Anyway (anyway)
Oh, baby, I-I love you
Baby (Baby, oh, baby)
Believe me when I say we straight
I'm gonna love you anyway

[Chorus]
But, boy, you know what?
When I start to think about it
It's like "so what?"
Go 'head and let him trip about it
No matter how they feel or what they may say
I'm gonna love you anyway (Uh-huh)
And, boy, you know what?
When they start to flip about it
It ain't enough for me to ever be without ya
You best believe it when I tell you we straight
I'm gonna love you anyway (Love you anyway)
But, boy, you know what?
When I start to think about it
It's like "so what?"
Go 'head and let him trip about it
No matter how they feel or what they may say
I'm gonna love you anyway (Uh-huh)
And, boy, you know what?
When they start to flip about it
It ain't enough for me to ever be without ya
You best believe it when I tell you we straight
I'm gonna love you anyway (Love you anyway)

[Outro]
I'm gonna love you anyway, yeah
Gonna love you anyway

Jhené Aiko

Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo (born March 16, 1988) started her career under the moniker Jhené Aiko when she was 13 with the music group B2K. She explained how she later opted out of the deal to go back to high school and have her daughter Namiko in an interview back in July 2012 with Lozza

I was signed with Sony/EPIC when I was 12 years old and got a release from them when I was about 15 or 16 to focus on school. I started writing more and I had a child who’s now three years old.

After the failed release of her debut album, My Name Is Jhené back in 2003, Jhené released her debut mixtape, Sailing Soul(s) on March 16, 2011.